Get Known Before The Book Deal: Use Your Personal Strengths To Grow An Author Platform - Softcover

Katz, Christina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158297554X ISBN 13: 9781582975542

Publisher: Writers Digest Books, 2008

Synopsis

Sell Your First Book & Develop a Successful and Sustainable Writing Career

Before you can land a book deal—before you can even attract the interest of agents and editors—you need to be visible. How do you become visible? You develop a platform, or a way of reaching your readers. Everybody can develop a platform, and this book shows you how to do it while you're still writing.

This book offers:

• A step-by-step approach to creating, growing, and nurturing a platform
• An economical approach to self-promotion (no need to spend thousands)
• A clear way to uncover your strengths and weaknesses as an author
• The strategies that are essential (or not) to online promotion
• A philosophy of authorship that leaves you confident, empowered, and equally partnered with agents, editors, and publishers (instead of waiting to be discovered)
• A diverse set of tools and methods for getting known (not just web-based tools or ideas for extroverts)

After you read this book, you'll be able to answer the inevitable question: "What's your platform?" You'll learn the hows and whys of becoming visible and how to cultivate visibility from scratch. Best of all, you won't need any previous knowledge or experience to get started.

Growing a writing career isn't just about landing one book deal and then scrambling like crazy. There is a more strategic and steady way to lay the groundwork so you can avoid scrambling altogether—and Get Known Before the Book Deal is the only comprehensive book that shows you how.

About this title

Synopsis:

Half the people attending writer's conferences with dreams of book deals dancing in their heads still don't understand why they need to get known in order to land a book deal.Yet becoming visible is more crucial than ever, according to agents and editors in every facet of the publishing industry."Get Known Before The Book Deal" helps totally unknown writers steadily increase their reach and visibility around topics that are most appropriate for their expertise.By instructing writers in the basics of self-publicity and readership development, "Get Known Before The Book Deal" increases their odds of landing a book deal and having greater impact on sales when their book comes out.

About the Author:

Christina Katz is the author of Writer Mama. She started her platform "for fun" seven years ago and ended up on Good Morning America. Her article, "Almost Famous," appears in the WDB 2008 Guide to Literary Agents. She enjoys building all her own sites and keeps up with the latest trends and tools online.

About this edition

• Publisher: Writers Digest Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 158297554X
• ISBN 13: 9781582975542
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272